Amith Krishnan

Product design process is the set of strategic and tactical activities, from idea generation to commercialization, used to create a product design. In a systematic approach, product designers conceptualize and evaluate ideas, turning them into tangible inventions and products. The product designer's role is to combine art, science, and technology to create new products that people can use. Their evolving role has been facilitated by digital tools that now allow designers to communicate, visualize, analyze and actually produce tangible ideas in a way that would have taken greater manpower in the past.

Tool and die makers are a class of machinists in the manufacturing industries who make jigs, fixtures, dies, molds, machine tools, cutting tools, gauges, and other tools used in manufacturing processes.Traditionally, working from engineering drawings developed by engineers and technologists, tool makers lay out the design on the raw material, then cut it to size and shape using manually controlled machine tools (such as lathes, milling machines, grinding machines, and jig grinders). Tool making typically means making tooling used to produce products. Die making is a subgenre of tool making that focuses on making and maintaining dies. This often includes making punches, dies, steel rule dies, and die sets. Precision is key in die making, punches and dies must maintain proper clearance to produce parts accurately.